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  • IN MEMORY OF JOACHIM FEST: The Proud Loner

    09/14/2006 5:09:41 AM PDT · by wolf78 · 440+ views
    SPIEGEL Online ^ | September 12, 2006 | Matthias Matussek
    IN MEMORY OF JOACHIM FEST The Proud Loner By Matthias Matussek Joachim Fest has died. The author of a best-selling biography of Adolf Hitler and former editor of the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has left an impressive life's work - one of the most important to be produced in Germany since 1945. Fest's memoirs "Not Me" are a masterpiece. They tell the story of a family that refused to bow to the pressures of history and society. Now he has lost his battle against illness after all. Joachim Fest had to muster the last of his strength to complete...